Monthly Archive: September 2013

Developers communicate with a lot of free text, like emails, documentations, bug reports etc, of which some parts are source code (snippets, patches, examples) You want to separate the source form the natural language, in order to perform more detailed…Read more

In the final discussion round of SCAM, suddenly things got interesting as we were discussing (industrial) evaluation of tools. There were a few reasons given by attendees for the lack of industrial evaluation. An attendee from ABB David C. Shepherd said…Read more

The idea of this paper, presented by Martin Monperrus, is to abstract over source code to analyze it more coarse-grained. With this abstraction, we can determine how diverse a certain API is used. Is it always used in the same way….Read more

Tosin Daniel Oyetoyan has investigated different types of cyclic dependencies in source code, specifically focusing on the propagation of possible defects. Tosin’s assumption is that components which as in a cyclic dependency have a higer number of defects than non-cyclic…Read more

This weekend, I went on a get away with some fellow developers of Devnology. We do this every year, drinking beer, talking about programming, and often also, programming. This year I had even more fun than usual, as Daan van…Read more